The nearest star beyond our Sun is Proxima Centauri, and while it sounds close in astronomical terms, the journey there […] ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet-forming disks. These objects could "seed" the disks, sweeping past the ...

NASA’s IMAP mission, led by Princeton University’s David McComas, will study the heliosphere — the invisible electromagnetic ...

Summer 2015 was marked by a unique astronomical event, which occurs approximately once in the history of astronomy. The New ...